archie manning

You laugh now, but there was a time, very recently, when it was a debate. There was a time, when we thought the kid had commandeered the throne. There was a time when, when we thought it was the dawn of one empire, and the dusk of another.

In an interview with 106.7 The Fan’s Holden and Danny, Archie Manning suggested his son Peyton’s close relationship with Mike Shanahan nearly led the quarterback to sign with the Washington Redskins in 2012.

The patriarchs of the NFL’s first families of quarterbacks and coaches are anything but interfering dads. In fact, Archie Manning and Jack Harbaugh are just as influenced by their successful sons as their boys are by them.